The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Author: Richard Dalby
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 1992
Genre: Ghost stories, American
ISBN: 9781853814808

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A collection of 21 ghost stories from authors such as Charlotte Bronte, Mrs Gaskell, Rhoda Broughton, Willa Cather, Mrs Oliphant, Mary E. Braddon and Violet Hunt.

The Virago Book of Ghost Stories

The Virago Book of Ghost Stories
Author: Richard Dalby
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 1998
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9781860491542

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Thirty four spooky stories by classic storytellers of the twentieth century - many from the 1920s and 30s - chill and excite in this classic collection. All of them demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore those ghostly margins of the supernatural which are part of private experience as well as of popular tradition. Authors include Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, Elizabeth Jane Howard, E Nesbit, Fay Weldon, Edith Wharton and Lisa St Aubin de Teran.

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Cox
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2003
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 0192804472

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Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

Victorian Ghost Stories

Victorian Ghost Stories
Author: Richard Dalby
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages: 347
Release: 1988
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780881844733

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Twenty-one stories from the pens of such writers as Charlotte Bronte and Willa Cather.

Madam Crowl's Ghost

Madam Crowl's Ghost
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781853262180

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Includes tales which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals.

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0241955718

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Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl. 'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts . . .' Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories, including Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand, Edith Wharton's Afterward, Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The Telephone. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

The Little Stranger

The Little Stranger
Author: Sarah Waters
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2009-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1551993392

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From the multi-award-winning and bestselling author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith comes an astonishing novel about love, loss, and the sometimes unbearable weight of the past. In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to see a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the once grand house is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its garden choked with weeds. All around, the world is changing, and the family is struggling to adjust to a society with new values and rules. Roddie Ayres, who returned from World War II physically and emotionally wounded, is desperate to keep the house and what remains of the estate together for the sake of his mother and his sister, Caroline. Mrs. Ayres is doing her best to hold on to the gracious habits of a gentler era and Caroline seems cheerfully prepared to continue doing the work a team of servants once handled, even if it means having little chance for a life of her own beyond Hundreds. But as Dr. Faraday becomes increasingly entwined in the Ayreses’ lives, signs of a more disturbing nature start to emerge, both within the family and in Hundreds Hall itself. And Faraday begins to wonder if they are all threatened by something more sinister than a dying way of life, something that could subsume them completely. Both a nuanced evocation of 1940s England and the most chill-inducing novel of psychological suspense in years, The Little Stranger confirms Sarah Waters as one of the finest and most exciting novelists writing today.

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories

The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2010-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141943815

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This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernatural Phantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from the famous, such as M. R. James's tale of an ancient curse, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad' and W. W. Jacobs's story of gruesome wish-fulfilment, 'The Monkey's Paw', to lesser-known masterpieces: Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Thrawn Janet', telling of a parish priest tormented for life by his encounter with the undead; Charles Dickens's unsettling account of a railway signal-man and an ominous portent; and Edward Bulwer Lytton's 'The Haunted and the Haunters', where a cursed house harbours a diabolical secret. Michael Newton's introduction discusses why ghost stories scare us and why they flourished from the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth century, examining their changing conventions throughout history. This edition also includes further reading, notes, a glossary and a chronology. Edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton

The Third Miss Symons

The Third Miss Symons
Author: Flora Macdonald Mayor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1913
Genre:
ISBN:

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Sylvie and Bruno

Sylvie and Bruno
Author: Lewis Carroll
Publisher: London ; New York : Macmillan
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1889
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

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First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.